Boy Left on Nashville Bus for 10 Hours
An ordinary bus ride turned into a frightening ordeal for one 7-year-old in Nashville Tennessee. Semajay Woodward fell asleep as he rode the bus to school in the morning. After the bus driver and the bus monitor dropped the children off at school the bus driver drove the bus to his home and then left for a second job. Semajay was left on the bus for about 10 hours hungry, cold, with no bathroom and alone. He wasn’t freed until after 4 pm. The bus driver told the boy to not report the incident and sent him home with some food.
Semajay Woodward, 7, was picked up from his home by a school bus to be taken to Nashville Global Academy, when he fell asleep on the way to school. Both the bus driver and the monitor did not see the sleeping boy for unknown reasons when they dropped the rest of the students off at school. The bus driver then drove the bus home and went to a second job. Semajay was on the bus for nearly 10 hours, alone, hungry, cold, and without a bathroom. No one realized the boy was mistakenly left on the bus until the after-school pickup. Semajay’s mother reported to News Channel 5, that the driver actually sent her son home with some food and told him not to tell anyone what happened to him all day. Both the bus driver and the monitor have since been fired.
Source: Justice News
